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HIST 1510: Stage 3: Bibliography

[HIST|1510|Tammy Proctor] 1989 Project Library Research Stages

Stage 3: Bibliography (10 points -- due as Canvas upload by midnight on March 20th)

Create a bibliography  for your paper including the peer reviewed secondary sources you plan to use. These are scholarly published books and scholarly journal articles that you will cite using Chicago or MLA style (see the links in Stage 1 above). You will need 5 secondary sources (books and journal articles).

To find secondary sources:

  1. The best place for scholarly journal articles is JSTOR, a database you can search on the library website.  Remember that scholarly articles are not from popular magazines such as Time or Rolling Stone, but instead, they are from historical journals such as the Journal of American History or the Journal of Social History.
  2. Avoid doing a google search and listing websites – this requires using OUR LIBRARY.
  3. The best way to get good scholarly books is to search the library website by keyword.
  4. Examples of titles you could use for general context (which are available from our library) include:
    • 1989: A Global History of Eastern Europe (2019)
    • The Global 1980s: People, Power, and Profit (2019)
    • The Long 1989: Decades of Global Revolution (2019)

 

**Note – for best results, aim to get both journal articles and books – journal articles are usually more recent and timely, but books provide more depth. See the LIBGUIDE for the class for tips on how to find good books and journal articles in history from our library.

Please do not use Wikipedia or online encyclopedias/dictionaries or random websites for this part of assignment. You want things that have been peer reviewed by other scholars.

Tip:

Article Linker button

Need the PDF/full-text?

Use Article Linker to search for full-text across all databases. If the article isn't available, choose Request via ILLiad or use interlibrary loan to request a copy from another library.

Tip:

Need a book we don't own?

Use interlibrary loan to request books, articles, and more from other libraries.